The legal papers necessary to facilitate the extradition of former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran from Singapore to face the courts in Sri Lanka have been handed over to the Defense and Foreign Affairs Ministry today the Attorney General’s department said.

The Supreme Court has ordered that the Fundamental Rights petition filed by the depositors in the ETI Finance Company calling on the courts to freeze the bank accounts of the failed finance company be heard on December 4.

The former Colombo Chief Judicial Medical Officer Professor Ananda Samarasekara was today 27 Aug indicted by the Attorney General before the Colombo High Court in the Waseem Thajudeen alleged murder case.